You may have noticed in the posts late last night that I'm changing the way I flag book formats/stores just a little. Rather than having the list right after "free book", I'm moving it to the end and I'm also shortening to a single letter:
- K - Kindle/Amazon
- N - nook/Barnes & Noble
- I - iBooks/iTunes
- E - EPUB/various stores
- P - PDF/various stores
- DF - DRM-Free
I might add some others later on. This should help those getting twitter notices to see the entire message/book title.
Additional formats on free books and those now free in the US Kindle store (the Bell Bridge books didn't drop, although they did end up bargain priced from $0.99 to $1.99):
Today is the last day to take advantage of these KSO deals:
I don't see an equivalent for those in the US, but in the UK, Amazon is offering
The 12 Days of Kindle, featureing books priced prices starting at £0.99, with more books added daily (Dec 26 - Jan 6).
Life of Pi (
$0.99), by Yann Martel, is today's Kindle Deal of the Day. Be careful buying this one on your computer, as there are two editions and only one is on sale.
Book Description
Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra, and Richard Parker, a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with Richard Parker for 227 days lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional-but is it more true? Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God.
Those in Peril (
$1.54 / £0.99 UK), by Wilbur Smith, is the Kindle Deal of the day for those in the UK (the
US edition is $12.99). Those in the UK will find the rest of his backlist more reasonably priced than in the US, as well, with
Elephant Song bargain priced under $4 (£2.29) and several others under £5.
Book Description
Hazel Bannock is the heir to the Bannock Oil Corp, one of the major oil producers with global reach. While cruising in the Indian Ocean, Hazel's private yacht is hijacked by African pirates. Hazel is not on board at the time, but her nineteen year old daughter, Cayla, is kidnapped and held to ransom. The pirates demand a crippling twenty billion dollar ransom for her release. Complicated political and diplomatic considerations render the civilized major powers incapable of intervening. When Hazel is given evidence of the horrific torture which Cayla is being subjected to, she calls on Hector Cross to help her rescue her daughter. Hector is the owner and operator of Cross Bow Security, the company which is contracted to Bannock Oil to provide all their security. He is a formidable fighting man. Between them Hazel and Hector are determined to take the law into their own hands.
Thunder Dog (
$4.60 Kindle,
B&N), by Michael Hingson, is the Nook Daily Find, price matched on Kindle. This is a pretty good price on this one, if you missed it when it was the Kindle Deal of the Day in September.
Book Description
A blind man and his guide dog show the power of trust and courage in the midst of devastating terror.
It was 12:30 a.m. on 9/11 and Roselle whimpered at Michael’s bedside. A thunderstorm was headed east, and she could sense the distant rumbles while her owners slept. As a trained guide dog, when she was “on the clock” nothing could faze her. But that morning, without her harness, she was free to be scared, and she nudged Michael’s hand with her wet nose as it draped over the bedside toward the floor. She needed him to wake up.
With a busy day of meetings and an important presentation ahead, Michael slumped out of bed, headed to his home office, and started chipping away at his daunting workload. Roselle, shivering, took her normal spot at his feet and rode out the storm while he typed. By all indications it was going to be a normal day. A busy day, but normal nonetheless. Until they went into the office.
In Thunder Dog, follow Michael and his guide dog, Roselle, as their lives are changed forever by two explosions and 1,463 stairs. When the first plane struck Tower One, an enormous boom, frightening sounds, and muffled voices swept through Michael’s office while shards of glass and burning scraps of paper fell outside the windows.
But in this harrowing story of trust and courage, discover how blindness and a bond between dog and man saved lives and brought hope during one of America’s darkest days.
Sunfire, the first Pure Wildfire title by Lynne Connolly, is free in the Kindle store and from Barnes & Noble, AllRomance, Sony and the publisher Ellora's Cave. This full length novel (310 pages) is a blistering 5 on the heat index at ARe.
